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> UDP is just about as reliable or unreliable as IP

That's in theory.

In practice ISPs routinely classify, prioritize and shape application traffic (based on either TCP/UDP ports or results of deep packet inspection), so running SSL over IP will yield different IP loss profile than when running SSL over UDP.



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